John Belchem | |
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Born | 30 May 1948 |
Occupation(s) | Emeritus Professor of History, University of Liverpool |
Academic background | |
Education | BA (hons) 1970, D.Phil. 1974 |
Alma mater | University of Sussex |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
John Belchem is an emeritus British professor whose work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain,Irish migration,the Isle of Man,and modern history. [1] He has a special interest in the history of Liverpool. [2] He was made a fellow of the Royal Historical Society [3] in 1987 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. [4]
Belchem served as head of the School of History,dean of the Faculty of Arts and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool. [5] [1] He is presently vice-president of the Society for the Study of Labour History. [6]
Belchem's 1985 work on Henry Hunt made a "major contribution to our understanding" of political strategies of progressive movements in 19th-century Britain. [7] Industrialization and the Working Class (1990) was viewed as a "lucid and wide-ranging survey of recent works on working-class movements and their context." [8] Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996) was reviewed as an "excellent work" and a "valuable guide" to the literature on Chartism and the origins of the Labour Party. [9] Merseypride (2000),a collection of essays on the history of Liverpool,is considered to be a "valuable work...of a consistently high standard." [10] His Irish,Catholic and Scouse (2007) was noted to have made a "vital contribution to the historiography of the Irish in Britain." [11]
Belchem worked on Liverpool's successful bid for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2004. [12] [13] In 2017, [14] he was appointed to the Liverpool mayor's task force,which assisted in efforts that ensured the city's status was not lost when under review by UNESCO in 2018. [15] [16] [17]
He was an adviser on Mike Leigh's 2018 film Peterloo . [18]
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